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Sick perverts ask schoolgirls to indecently expose themselves during lessons on live video app
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 25.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | childhood, pornography, privacy, school, smartphone, threat, video communication
Summary | Perverts have asked schoolgirls to expose themselves via live Periscope videos during lessons. While they were using the app, the girls received a lot of sexual comments. Periscope is an app that is also used by businesses and media organisations to stream events and conferences live. Viewers can then comment and ask questions live; those comments are displayed on screen and everyone can see them.
Image Description | Photograph of a student's hands holding a phone under a desk, photograph of an empty classroom,
Image Tags | cell phone, male(s), school
Smartphone users beware - your battery could be leaking details about you online
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 2.8.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | privacy, research/study, smartphone, threat
Summary | According to a research, your phone battery level could be used to track your online activity.
Image Description | Image of a low battery next to a warning sign, iPhone displaying a low battery, hand holding a smartphone displaying a game
Image Tags | game, hand(s), smartphone
Google boss on life beyond the smartphone and how the company will pay more tax in the UK
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 1.7.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, privacy, smartphone
Summary | The author of the article first describes Google headquarters (objects, atmosphere, workers etc.). She then talks about Sundar Pichai (Google's chief executive). Pichai wants people to see Google as a full-on assistant that can help them accomplish all sorts of tasks. In the future, Pichai wants Google to target homes and cars. The future is also linked to artificial intelligence. They want to work with new techniques that relie on neural networks in order to allow computers to teach themselves. Pichai talks about the future: using AI in medicine, privacy issures, personal assistants, Google search option, Google translate, and other services.
Image Description | Four photographs of Sundar Pichai, Google HQ, man holding Google Home and speaking, driveless car, video about the history of Google
Image Tags | Google, male(s)
The Smartphone’s Future: It’s All About the Camera
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 30.8.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | privacy, smartphone, translation, virtual reality
Summary | Now that smartphones are as thin and as fast as possible, they need to develop into another realm. The camera will be used in new ways to, for instance, improve privacy by unlocking your phone by showing your face. Another innovation is the possiblity of taking a picture of a restaurant menu and having it instantly translated. Augmented reality also relies on the camera enabling users to, for instance, project a 3D model of a piece of furniture they want into a picture of their living room to see what it would look like.
Image Description | Illustration showing a smartphone scanning a woman's face.
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone
Practice safe Internet on the road
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 31.7.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | email, privacy, smartphone, social media, threat
Summary | Traveling can be dangerous, especiallyin the digital age. Many travelers make themselves vulnerable to criminals by sharing their location on social media or by connecting to a password-free wifi which is often provided by scammers to hack into email accounts. In these cases virtual kidnapping becomes possible when travelers spend a few days somewhere off the grid and a local group claims to have kidnapped the traveler and blackmails their family for ransom.
Image Description | Getty image of a woman sitting in a train.
Image Tags | female(s)
How can you protect your right to digital privacy at the border?
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 11.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | law, privacy, smartphone, threat
Summary | American customs now ask some flight passengers to give airport officers access to their digital devices. While it is still a rare case, some passengers are asked to turn on their smartphone/tablet/laptop to demonstrate that it is not hooked up to an explosive. They also check whether illegal data is being transmitted over the border on the hardware storage. Passengers are advised to clean their storage and store all their personal files on a cloud.
Image Description | iStock image of a woman using a smartphone at an airport.
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone
How to Protect Your Privacy as More Apps Harvest Your Data
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 2.5.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | law, marketing, privacy, smartphone, threat
Summary | Many smartphone apps can be used for free, or rather one does not have to pay money to use it. However, if the app is not from a non-profit organization, users pay in some other way that may be obscure to them. Usually free for-profit apps collect data abou their users that they can sell to advertisers. The only way to protect oneself from this is to carefully read the terms and conditions, even if they are in legalese. If one does not like the level of privacy provided by an app, the only certain way to avoid data exploitation is not to download the app.
Image Description | Illustration of a hand holding a smartphone where eyes are hidden behind the app icons.
Image Tags | hand(s), smartphone
Listen up, coaches: Your players might be recording your every word -- to use against you
Newspaper | Los Angeles Times
Date | 28.4.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | privacy, school, smartphone, threat, word/writing
Summary | A high school sports coach has recently been fired because he was secretly recorded while speaking to his team. The record alluded to physical violence - which he corrected in the recorded speech as a mere metaphor, not an actual recommendation - and inappropriate words. It is not entirely clear whether the student was allowed to record the conversation because a locker room speech is not technically in a classroom and was not explicitly classified as private. Coaches need to be aware that there is no privacy with smartphones everywhere.
Image Description | N/A
'Snowden' filmmaker Oliver Stone warns Pokemon Go is creating a totalitarian world filled with robot-like people
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 22.7.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | game, privacy, smartphone, social media, threat, virtual reality
Summary | The game Pokemon Go has become so popular that it has overtaken major social media in number of active users. Oliver Stone spoke about the smartphone phenomenon as 'a new level of invasion' that could potentially lead to totalitarianism and a culture of surveillance. Internet giants are tracking everyone's online behavior, especially through the game Pokemon Go.
Image Description | Photograph of Oliver Stone, photograph of three male children looking at their smartphone, photograph of actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and photograph of Edward Snowden
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone
In the Apple Case, a Debate Over Data Hits Home
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 13.3.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Facebook, law, politics, privacy, research/study, smartphone, threat
Summary | Apple's refusal to aide the FBI with breaking into the phone of the San Bernardino attacker has unleashed a political debate among Americans. IT experts as well as lay people report that they have had discussions about the topic with other people, some say they have had fights over Facebook with family members about the issue. Polls show that the American people are hugely divided on the topic: 42% think Apple should cooperate with the FBI while 47% support Apple's stance to protect user privacy.
Image Description | Getty image of a protest crowd showing a man holding up his smartphone with the text: "Don't turn our phones into FBI drones".
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone, text
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